Posts Tagged with ‘WW II’
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The Road – Vasily Grossman
16 Jul 2021Vasily Grossman, (Ukrainian-Soviet, 1905–1964,) may be the world’s least known colossal writer. His short fiction, his stupendous novels, his moral…
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Life and Fate – Vasily Grossman
09 Jun 2021If Vasily Grossman‘s great novel, Life and Fate (1980) lacks many millions of readers to catch Tolstoy’s War and Peace…
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The War: A Memoir – Marguerite Duras
01 May 2019Marguerite Donnadieu was seventeen years old when she moved to France from a small village near Saigon, Vietnam, where…
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The Gallery by John Horne Burns: Americans in Naples, 1944
24 Apr 2019Missing in almost all war fiction, from the time of Gilgamesh (2800 BCE) on, is the recognition that war…
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Stalingrad, a Novel – Theodore Plievier
27 Sep 2018War
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Fleeing War — Walter Kempowski: All for Nothing
18 Sep 2018War stories since The Iliad ( 8th century BCE) have been told to fascinate and celebrate physical courage, mental…
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The Sea and Poison — Shūsaku Endō, confronting War Crimes
31 Jul 2018Pride in our ancestors, and countrymen is common in stories we tell each other, of their hard work, sacrifice…
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Barefoot Gen, a Japanese Graphic Novel in Ten Volumes: Hiroshima
15 Jun 2018THE RECENT SURGE OF INTEREST in graphic novels, with roots in the Underground Comix of the 1960s has not…
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Tadeusz Borowski — The Camps are Us
23 Aug 2017Massacre and genocide have been on the scroll of human history since cracked skulls left their sure signs, then in…
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Zone of Emptiness – A Japanese Novel of WWII
25 Jul 2017Zone of Emptiness by the Japanese novelist Hiroshi Noma, when it was published in 1952 after years of military censorship,…
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Japan’s WW II Cinema: Bucking Up the Home Front
28 Apr 2017Watching Japanese films from the 1940s and 50s is difficult for many. No big sword fights,no clothing shed in intimate love affairs.…
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Mussolini’s Italy: Life Under the Fascist Dictatorship, 1915-1945
02 Feb 2017It is hard to visualize, walking around Modena or Cremona or Verona, Italy as I have recently, that gangs of…
